EOR For Unconventional Reservoirs
Course Description
EOR in low permeability unconventional reservoirs is happening across a number of basins and is rapidly becoming a sub-discipline of petroleum engineering. This class covers what has been done over the last decade with a special focus on huff-n-puff (cyclic) gas injection. This includes how to predict production forecasts and injection volumes required, as well as determining the contribution of different recovery mechanisms. Other techniques such as continuous injection and water/surfactant injection are also considered. We examine field trials across all of the basins and discuss the successes and lessons learned from them. Operational aspects to successfully implement EOR in unconventional wells is also covered.
Course Length
1-2 days
CEUs
0.8 CEUs (Continuing Education Units) for 1-day version; 1.6 CEUs for 2-day version
Cancellation Policy
All cancellations must be received no later than 14 days prior to the course start date. Cancellations made after the 14-day window will not be refunded. Refunds will not be given due to no show situations.
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We reserve the right to substitute course instructors as necessary.
Instructor
Professor Todd Hoffman is a leading faculty member in the Petroleum Engineering Department at Montana Tech. His educational contributions include teaching Reservoir Simulation, Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR), and Reservoir Engineering. Before joining academia full-time, he was a reservoir engineering consultant specializing in flow modeling and managing fractured reservoirs, and a petroleum engineering professor at Colorado School of Mines where he taught Geostatistics, Fluid Properties, and Thermal Recovery.
Professor Hoffman has accumulated over 15 years of experience in academia and the industry. He has developed reservoir models for over 30 fields across six continents and has published more than 40 technical papers. His research focuses on improving recovery methods for both conventional and unconventional oil reservoirs, modeling of fracture reservoirs, and enhancing data consistency in history matching processes. He holds a B.S. from Montana Tech and an M.S. and Ph.D. in petroleum engineering from Stanford University.
His current research interests lie in enhancing recovery techniques for unconventional oil reservoirs like those in the Bakken and Niobrara formations, primarily through numerical modeling and experimental efforts. He collaborates with industry operators on pilot test designs and field development studies. Additionally, his work includes advancing conventional EOR projects like gas injection and thermal recovery, improving accuracy in predictive models through history matching, and developing more realistic representations of complex hydraulic fractures in reservoir models.